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Hairgrass

Vahlodea

Also called Arctic Hairgrass, Hair Grass

Hairgrass
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass

About

Vahlodea is a monotypic genus of plants in the grass family. The only known species is Vahlodea atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Fr.

Its native range is the subarctic (such as Greenland), to temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere. From (Europe within; Finland, North European Russia, Norway and Sweden), to Asia within (Japan, Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Magadan and Taiwan), and in North America (within the Canadian provinces of; Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec and Yukon and within the US states of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming), and also southern South America (within Argentina and Chile).

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vahlodea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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